Is anybody knows if Vista still wants to be compatible with 8.3 aka old
dos/batch programs?

Tamas


On 23/10/06, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/23/06, John Pfaff <jpfaff1528@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Right-click in the explorer window, go to 'new->text file' and name it
> > 'testte~1.txt'.  The first file's 8.3 name will magically change to
> > testte~2.txt.
>
> You are indeed correct.  It looks like windows explorer is at fault
> for renaming the short file name.  Hardly a "dos" program.  :-)
> Still, it does the "right" thing.  It shouldn't give the user an error
> about a conflicting name, when all the user can ever see in this
> interface is the long file name, and the short file name is rarely
> needed for 99% of today's users.
>
> -Adam
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